University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books

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by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963

Despite abundant hardships, pioneer life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful, and Mr. Guillet brings vividly to life the early settlers and their experiences. He draws on contemporary letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals, supplementing these researches with interviews with persons...
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Roads to Maturity/Vers La Maturité

Proceedings of the Second Canadian Conference on Children/Déliberations de la second Conférence Canadienne de l'Enfance Montréal, October 31-November 4, 1965

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967

This volume contains the proceedings of the second Canadian Conference on Children which was held in Montreal in the autumn of 1965. It includes four papers given by Dr. Alva Myrdal, Dr. Alan Ross, Dr. M.S. Rabinovitch and Dr. C.E. Hendry, all well known for their attention to the problems of children...
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The Clear Spirit

Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966

The Canadian Federation of University Women have undertaken as their Centennial project a biographical account of twenty noteworthy women. From a large number of vigorous and accomplished candidates a selection was made from various historical periods, from various regions of Canada, and from the...
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Quiet Evolution

A Study of the Educational System of Ontario

by Robin Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967

During the past few years there have been several changes in the educational system of Ontario: a reorganization of the Department of Education, the abolition of the school section, the establishment of post-secondary institutions of applied arts and technology, and the reform of Grade 13. Others...
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The Correspondence of Erasmus

Letters 2082 to 2203

by Desiderius Erasmus, James M. Estes
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

This volume contains the surviving correspondence of Erasmus for the first seven months of 1529. For nearly eight years he had lived happily and productively in Basel. In the winter of 1528-9, however, the Swiss version of the Lutheran Reformation triumphed in the city, destroying the liberal-reformist...
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The Bruce Beckons

The Story of Lake Huron's Great Peninsula

by William Fox
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002

First published in 1952, The Bruce Beckons was immediately acclaimed as a delightful guide to a uniquely beautiful and fascinating part of Ontario. Separating Georgian Bay from Lake Huron, the Bruce Peninsula's remarkable natural history and richly varied wildlife today continue to draw thousands...
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by Thomas Haliburton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973

The Season-Ticket, published in 1860, is made up of a series of articles previously contributed during 1859 and 1860 to the Dublin University Magazine. Its quality of interest lies in its major purpose: the programme of a thorough going British imperialist who advocates “a three-fold policy...
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Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979

A Historian's Biography

by John Reid
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005

Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who...
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Liberalism and Hegemony

Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution

by Jean-Francois Constant, Michel Ducharme
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009

In 2000, Ian McKay, a highly respected historian at Queen's University, published an article in the Canadian Historical Review entitled "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History." Written to address a crisis in Canadian history, this detailed, programmatic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963

The Iroquois Book of Rites, the most noteworthy of Hale's studies of the Iroquois, was translated and edited by him from two Indian manuscripts found at Grand River, with the help of informants and interpreters. The various parts of the Book of Rites throw valuable light on the political and social...
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Counting and Measuring

An Approach to Number Education in the Infant School

by Eileen Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961

The teaching of numbers in the primary grades is seen in this book as the foundation of the beginnings of mathematical understanding. Mathematics is taken to be a language, and the aim of its teaching is to make the pupil, so to speak, bilingual, or so to increase his understanding that he is able...
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by Donald A. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015

The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one. The Professionalization of History in English Canada charts the transition of the study of history from a leisurely pastime to that of a full-blown academic career for university-trained...
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by George Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967

The subjects inquired into by Canadian federal royal commissions have ranged over such a wide field that the reports and special studies prepared by the 400 commissions since Confederation have become an essential part of any research in Canadian studies. In many cases the special studies which are...
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Hamilton Babylon

A History of the McMaster Film Board

by Stephen Broomer
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Founded in 1966 at McMaster University by avant-garde filmmaker John Hofsess and future frat-comedy innovator Ivan Reitman, the McMaster Film Board was a milestone in the development of Canada’s commercial and experimental film communities. McMaster’s student film society quickly became the site...
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